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"Executions should be studied instead of enacted this year," is the title of an editorial in today's Tuscaloosa News. Although the death penalty has never been proved as a deterrent to crime, the Alabama Supreme Court has scheduled five capital punishment dates for the first five months of 2009. Of the five inmates scheduled for execution, one has been on death row for 18 years, one for 19 years, one for 21 years and two for 26 years. The state's death penalty advocates seem almost giddy. Alabama went all of this year without an execution, though some were scheduled. Appeals delayed them, and appeals may delay executions scheduled next year.Aside from the appellate process, however, Alabama ought to delay all executions to allow for a thorough study of its capital punishment process...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 08, 2008 (boomark / email).